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Turtles freed in Tunisia with tracking monitor
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
The main risks to sea turtles in Tunisia are linked to fisheries, since they become entangled in nets -- including the three that were released into the wild. T...
Hive mind: Tunisia beekeepers abuzz over early warning system
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
The 39-year-old beekeeper opened a flap in the hive to reveal a low-cost, locally made sensor dedicated to measuring key environmental variables. An app on his ...
1.5 tonnes of elephant ivory seized in southeast DR Congo
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
Officers discovered the smuggled tusks aboard trucks in the city of Lubumbashi on Saturday, according to a legal official who declined to be named due involveme...
Second endangered cheetah cub dies in Iran: state media
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
"The cause of death of the cub is being investigated and the result will be announced after the post mortem," environment department official Hassan Akbari told...
Magnetic resonance makes the invisible visible
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
For example, protein folding was long considered as one of the great mysteries of modern research. This crucial process during which amino acid chains adopt a 3...
60 Zimbabweans killed by elephants this year
May 10, 2022 (AFP)
With 100,000 elephants, Zimbabwe has the world's second-largest population after Botswana, and about one-quarter of the elephants in all of Africa. Unlike in mu...
Thirsty birds struggle to survive in scorching Indian heat
May 06, 2022 (AFP)
An early start to summer has brought record temperatures and made life a misery for human and animal alike, with experts warning that climate change is making s...
Please don't croak: Setting the mood to save Venezuelan frog
May 04, 2022 (AFP)
The dark, spotted creature is categorized as "critically endangered" on the Red List of threatened species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
Park rangers use butterflies to take planet's pulse in a biodiversity hotspot
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study, entomologists turn to the aid of park rangers in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, broadly considered to be one of the most biodiverse ecosystems ...
Rare birth of Asiatic cheetah cubs in Iran
May 01, 2022 (AFP)
"Iran", one of only a dozen cheetahs found in the Islamic republic, delivered three "healthy" cubs by C-section, Ali Salajegheh told IRNA news agency. "This is ...
Over 21% of reptile species at risk of extinction
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
Catastrophic declines in biodiversity across the world are increasingly seen as a threat to life on Earth -- and as important as the interrelated menace of clim...
Restoring damaged land key to climate, biodiversity goals
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
Global food systems are responsible for 80 percent of deforestation and 70 percent of freshwater use, said the report. They are also the single largest driver o...
Leopard shot dead after attacking policeman in Iranian city
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
The endangered big cat "was killed by two bullets to save the life of the police officer," said Moslem Ahangari, head of the Mazandaran province Environmental P...
Dingoes aren't just feral dogs, says study
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
The species -- revered in Aboriginal culture but the bane of modern ranchers -- has been Australia's top predator since the extinction of Tasmanian tigers last ...
Ecotourism giving rare iguanas a sweet tooth
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
Northern Bahamian rock iguanas living on the Exuma Islands are so hooked on the tasty tourist treats that they rush to the beaches when they hear boats approach...
DRCongo plans elephant safe-zone after church intrusion
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
District administrator Ferdinand Tshikala Etshindo told AFP the pachyderm had been spotted several days ago near Lukula in the west of the vast central African ...
Researchers find declining nitrogen availability in a nitrogen rich world
Apr 15, 2022 (SPX)
"There is both too much nitrogen and too little nitrogen on Earth at the same time," said Rachel Mason, lead author on the paper and former postdoctoral scholar...
Lost golden toad heralds climate's massive extinction threat
Apr 13, 2022 (AFP)
For just a few days every year, the elfin cloud forest of Costa Rica came alive with crowds of golden toads the length of a child's thumb, emerging from the und...
Can sunflowers help defeat the 'insect apocalypse'?
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
One of the biggest challenges in biology today is to understand and manage how pathogens travel and proliferate. One place of special concern is the way that pa...
'Love hormone' oxytocin turns fierce lions into kittens
Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists who spent years spraying oxytocin up the noses of lions found the big cats became much friendlier with their neighbors and less prone to roaring at s...
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